Haddad Fellowship Recipients: Where Are They Now?
The Haddad Foundation has awarded scholarships for Brazilian students looking to pursue postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin. The application is due April 11th, and we recommend applying as soon as possible to give you as much time to complete the necessary details.
Since 2015, the Haddad Foundation has awarded scholarships to Brazilian students looking to pursue postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin. The scholarship's main goal is to develop academics in the humanities who will enhance Brazil’s intellectual and cultural landscape. There are two types of scholarships - the ABEI/Haddad Fellowship, working with the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies, focused on Literature, History, Communication, and Cinema; and the Haddad Fellowship, with a focus on Literature and Theatre. These scholarships cover full tuition and provide a cost allowance. Thus far, 29 scholarships have been awarded in courses such as Theatre & Performance, Literary Translation, and Comparative Literature.
We have been fortunate to have had Haddad participants in our MFA programs since 2022. Our Haddad recipient graduates follow all types of different pathways - some are directors, and costume designers, others design sets, and are lighting designers and technicians.
The application is due April 11th and we recommend applying as soon as possible to give you as much time to complete the necessary details. You can see more on that here.
Fibs Porto (2022)
Fibs Porto is an architect and designer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated from Ponifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio) in 2017 with a Bachelor's in Architecture and Urbanism. After that, she moved to São Paulo, where she worked as a collaborator at an architectural studio, acting as the architect in charge of projects for events, exhibitions, and concerts. Highlights from this include the Johnnie Walker Women's Month event with Gilberto Gil and the Björk Digital Exhibition in São Paulo, Brasília, and Rio de Janeiro.
Fibs has worked on various set design projects since graduating with their main focus being the ecological design of sets, taking into consideration how the decisions made throughout the whole process affect the environment and society. Her recent credits include Set Designer forThe Caoining at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2024 and Set Designer for BURNOUT at several venues in Prague throughout 2023 to 2024 and was assistant set designer on Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry at the Dublin Fringe Festival 2022.
Juliana Schmidt (2022)
Juliana studied Fashion Design at Anhembi Morumbi University in São Paulo, Brazil. She has worked in multiple areas in the fashion industry including styling, manufacturing, fashion journalism and ecommerce. In 2017, she founded the Hype Vintage brand to rescue and customize second-hand garments.She has always been fascinated by costumes and started creating small theatre productions and dance performances at the University of Campinas (Unicamp) while writing about her favourite film and TV costumes on Instagram.
Since graduating, Juliana has designed costumes for two productions at the Scene + Heard festival, including Fusion Murga, a flamboyant, satirical musical comedy, and The Wholly Divided Trinity Conspiracy of Queen Elizabeth (Near Dublin) - Act 1. Other credits include Dog Shit (Dublin Fringe Festival 2023, The New Theatre), The Big Reel an Irish Tour supported by an Arts Council Dance Project Award 2022-23, Fusion Murga (Scene+Heard 2023, Smock Alley Theatre).
Recently, Juliana was the costume designer for the short film The Knife which premiered at the Dublin International Film Festival, presented by Virgin Media Discovers and Keeper Picturesby, written and directed by MFA Directing graduate Joy Nesbitt, Suckin Diesel at Dublin Fringe Festival, and My Sister in this House at The Lir Academy.
Pedro Pacheco (2022)
Pedro Pacheco is a lighting designer and producer from Brazil and has worked extensively as a designer across multiple productions in theatre, dance, music, and outdoor events across Brazil. He has won two prizes for the best lighting design with the play Casarão da Rua Malinowa, directed by Jester Furtado. This experience in the industry has allowed Pedro to further develop his working knowledge as a theatre technician, programmer, and designer for events.
Since graduating, Pedro has worked on Global Desires, funded by the Arts Council, at The Digital Hub 2024. Other credits include lighting design for productions such as The Almighty Sometimes, Mud, and The Sugar Wife at The Lir Academy, and Suzy Storck at Smock Alley. In 2023, Pedro completed Endings, a project for the Dublin Fringe Festival at the Project Cube with the director Joy Nesbitt.
Zia Basbaum (2024)
Throughout her undergraduate degree, Zia was the co-author of multiple devised pieces, and the creator-performer of an original durational performance Adubo - Performance com Cartas de Amor. From 2021 to 2023, she directed two outstanding projects: No Exit, an existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, which she worked on for two years, and Ordinário - 2 Atores em 5x Sem Juros, a devised comedy exploring the Brazilian middle class and the myth of success in neoliberal society.
Professionally, she has worked as an assistant director to Cibele Forjaz in two productions: Estação_3: EMBORAR (2022), part of the triptych A Morte da Estrela, by CIA Barca de Dionísos; and Forjaz’s staging of Il Guarany (2023), for the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo. Additionally, she was the co-author of multiple devised pieces, and the creator-performer of an original durational performance Adubo - Performance com Cartas de Amor.
In September 2024, she was an assistant director on Amelia by Dee Roycroft for the Dublin Fringe Festival.
